Gmail users can now store entire small towns in Contacts

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While most Gmail users are far more concerned with that ever-increasing amount of available storage, those of you with cavernous address books might be excited to know that Google has dramatically upped the number of contacts you can keep on file. Previously, Gmail’s limit was a scant 10,000 entries, but that’s now been bumped to a whopping 25,000. I’m certainly relieved, because that means I can finally store the entire population of the Northern Manitoba town in which I live in my Gmail contacts for easy access — and still have room for about 11,000 more.

In all seriousness, for select individuals who use Gmail for chores like public relations, promotions, and CRM the update is a significant improvement. Google’s official blog post also specifies that the total amount of storage space available for each entry has been quadrupled to 128KB. That allows users to save infinitely more detailed information in Gmail’s notes field — which is again very useful for certain professionals, though most typical Gmail users probably won’t notice the difference.

A bit of quick multiplication reveals that you’re getting about 3GB of space to store contacts, which seems little on the excessive side when you consider that Gmail itself (where you’re stashing emails, chat logs, and attachments) gives a little over twice that amount. I’m also guessing that there’s no clever way for us to hack Contacts to use that space as free cloud storage with a local drive mapping the way we can with Gmail.

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